Another thought, if the bearing goes out whist driving what damage is likely to occur?
None, you just cut the compressor belt for coming back home. I replaced mine (420SI), no need to pull out the compressor, do it from the front ok.Another thought, if the bearing goes out whist driving what damage is likely to occur?
None, you just cut the compressor belt for coming back home. I replaced mine (420SI), no need to pull out the compressor, do it from the front ok.
Yes similar, I had my car checked over and a new dryer fitted two thousand ago, so bit lived.So this happened to me and the car could not be moved.
The clutch and winding will just melt and then the cars Aux Belt will not be able to rotate resulting in a lot of rubber smoke coming from the engine bay and not able to start. OK at home or local but not when you are in Bazel! We had to leave the car at the hotel and recover later and then get it fixed in France some 2 weeks later after Zep sources a cheaper part.
Emblem had checked the car out just a few days earlier (ok we did do 2k in that time), but they just noted some wear and advised a new one, but I thought it would be OK for a while.
Thanks for the reply Zep, that might be useful, my car is with a speciaiist at the moment who advised it to be done, just wondering whether to have a crack at it myself. It is working fine blowing nice and cold so guess it is just the clutch bearing.I spoke to a refurb company about rebuilding these compressors. They said that if the bearing spins in the casing they can’t be rebuilt. Was some time ago mind.
If anyone needs one, I have the old one from my GS in the shed, didn’t fail but had bearing noise. Might be useful to rebuild.
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